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On 24 June 2022, the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress passed the revision of the Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”). One working day later, on 27 June 2022, the State...
The Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act requires parties to transactions that meet certain thresholds to notify the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and observe a...
On 18 March 2020, the Austrian financial markets regulator (the " FMA") banned short selling on the Vienna Stock Exchange for one month, in efforts to shield the equities market from volatility. The ban applied to all shares admitted to trading on the Vienna Stock Exchange and was originally in place only until 18 April 2020. On 15 April 2020, the FMA extended the ban to 18 May 2020. The ban included any transaction, which created, or related to, a financial instrument and where the effect or one of the effects of that transaction was to confer a financial advantage in the event of a decrease...
Brexit Please see the other sections for product-specific updates relating to Brexit. Please see our Brexit financial services webpage which contains, amongst other things, tables detailing Brexit statutory instruments, equivalence decisions, EEA transitional regimes and UK regulators’ publications. FCA and PRA on passporting in and out of Gibraltar after the transition period On 31 December, the FCA published a new webpage on Gibraltar passporting arrangements, with the PRA publishing its respective webpage on 4 January. The regulators explain that the transitional arrangements preservin...
The Regulations have been made to specify that the legal and supervisory framework for stock exchanges in Switzerland meet at least equivalent outcomes to the UK's corresponding regime. The Regulations will allow all investment firms, which are subject to the trading obligation set out in Article 23(1) of the retained EU law version of the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (UK MiFIR), to trade shares that fall within scope of the share trading obligation on Swiss trading venues that have been recognised as equivalent (that is, BX Swiss AG and SIX Swiss Exchange AG). The Regulations ...